All 20 Uses
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
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- Also, to arrive in the Rocky Mountains by plane would be to see them in one kind of context, as pretty scenery.†
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- Those Indians and medieval men were just as intelligent as we are, but the context in which they thought was completely different.†
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- Within that context of thought, ghosts and spirits are quite as real as atoms, particles, photons and quants are to a modern man.†
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- I think about it and add, "That's a child-psychology term...a context I dislike.†
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- It is within this context that what Phaedrus thought and said is significant.†
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- Many trails through these high ranges have been made and forgotten since the beginning of time, and although the answers brought back from these trails have claimed permanence and universality for themselves, civilizations have varied in the trails they have chosen and we have many different answers to the same question, all of which can be thought of as true within their own context.†
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- But they saw only the word and its rhetoric context.†
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- It remains to work these concepts into a practical, down-to-earth context, and for this there is nothing more practical or downtoearth than what I have been talking about all along...the repair of an old motorcycle.†
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- At the DeWeeses I started to talk about peace of mind in connection with technical work but got laughed off the scene because I brought it up out of the context in which it had originally appeared to me.†
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- Now I think it is in context to return to peace of mind and see what I was talking about.†
Part 3in context = with consideration of surrounding setting and conditions
- I think that when this concept of peace of mind is introduced and made central to the act of technical work, a fusion of classic and romantic quality can take place at a basic level within a practical working context.†
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- It states that the context of the question is such that a yes or no answer is in error and should not be given.†
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- Mu becomes appropriate when the context of the question becomes too small for the truth of the answer.†
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- What's happened is that the power-off condition is part of a context larger than the context in which the one zero states are considered universal.†
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- What's happened is that the power-off condition is part of a context larger than the context in which the one zero states are considered universal.†
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- And there are plenty of other computer conditions besides a power-off condition in which mu answers are found because of larger contexts than the one-zero universality.†
Part 3contexts = settings or situations in which things occur
- The dualistic mind tends to think of mu occurrences in nature as a kind of contextual cheating, or irrelevance, but mu is found throughout all scientific investigation, and nature doesn't cheat, and nature's answers are never irrelevant.†
Part 3contextual = related to the setting or situation in which something occurs
- It's told the scientist that the context of his question is too small for nature's answer and that he must enlarge the context of the question.†
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- It's told the scientist that the context of his question is too small for nature's answer and that he must enlarge the context of the question.†
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- When your answer to a test is indeterminate it means one of two things: that your test procedures aren't doing what you think they are or that your understanding of the context of the question needs to be enlarged.†
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Definitions:
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(context) the setting or situation in which something occurs
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)